[美食] 好莱坞明星爱吃啥？饭团成新宠（双语）

　　说起好莱坞当下最流行的饮食风尚，莫过于从日本席卷而来的“饭团风”。比起同样源自日本的寿司而言，饭团更加便捷和易于携带，而且可以容纳更多口味。

　　Picking up where sushi left off, the Japanese rice ball is the latest food fad in Hollywood. More convenient and portable than sushi, the rice balls are packed multiple flavours and ingredients .

　　当寿司米饭裹上鸡肉馅料，一个简易的日式饭团就做好了。对于那些厌倦寿司或者不喜食生鱼的人来说，饭团也许是个更好的选择。饭团在洛杉矶尤其流行，那里的人们总喜欢将可口的小吃打包带走。

　　Stuffed with chicken and wrapped and formed by hand. This is a Japanese rice ball.For those tired of sushi, or who don't like the idea of eating raw fish, the rice ball might be the ideal alternative.It's proving particularly popular in Los Angeles, with people looking for a tasty snack on the go.

　　饭团，日语中读作onigiri或musubi，正在这个城市的亚洲快餐业中不断蔓延开来。卡瓦巴是一家在西好莱坞梅尔罗斯大街上开的一家饭团餐厅，刚刚开业半年生意就火的不得了。饭团的内馅通常是咖喱鸡、照烧鸡、烤三文鱼、墨西哥辣椒和味增肉末、腌咸菜、辣金枪鱼或三文鱼、天妇罗、要么是洋葱加烤火鸡。

　　Rice balls, known as onigiri or musubi in Japanese, are popping up at Asian fast-food eateries across the city. Kawaba, a Rice Ball Japanese Deli on the trendy Melrose Avenue in West Hollywood, has been open for six months and business is booming.Rice balls are stuffed with cooked fillings such as curried chicken, chicken teriyaki, grilled salmon, spicy jalapeno with miso diced meats, pickled Asian vegetables, spicy tuna and spicy salmon, breaded whole shrimp and braised turkey and onion.

　　视频中的Jordan Goldstein和Vivienne Barnes-Tucker既是同事也是餐馆的老主顾，他们十分喜欢把饭团作为午饭。“饭团和寿司最大的不同就是馅料都夹在之中，你永远不知道你下一口吃到的是什么。”

　　“我吃的是天妇罗饭团，寿司里可没有这样的美味。我喜欢饭团还因为你可以打包带走，寿司的话就不行了。”

　　Jordan Goldstein and Vivienne Barnes-Tucker are co-workers and enjoy their new rice ball lunch options."It's different than sushi because it's all stuffed away inside the ball and you know you don't know what you're going to get."

　　"What I had was shrimp tempura inside the rice ball, which is not something you would really see with sushi and another thing that I actually really like about rice balls is that you can kind of take them on the go, where you can't really do that with sushi."

　　天妇罗饭团

　　卡瓦巴的特色在于它的有机蔬菜，并可选择无麸质和素食主义的菜品。饭团的口感香软热乎，比冰冷的寿司强多了。卡瓦巴的老板Shun Otsuka说人们更喜欢做熟了的有机或无麸质菜品。“人们喜欢我们饭团的原因是因为它经过熟制这道工序。这是比起寿司它更容易让人接受的原因。这也是为什么我们有无麸质和素食者菜品的原因。”

　　Highlights of Kawaba include organic ingredients, gluten free choices, and vegetarian options. The balls are served soft and warm, rather than cold like sushi.Kawaba manager Shun Otsuka says people like the cooked organic and gluten free factors.

　　"Why people really like it, our rice balls, the reason is it's cooked. It's different from sushi that's why people its more easy to accept with that. That's a reason and we also have gluten-free options and vegetarian options and organic."

　　饭团还吸引了那些不喜欢生鱼的顾客，比如来自洛杉矶的KoKo Allen。“我喜欢饭团因为我对生鱼和寿司不感兴趣。每次我去寿司餐厅时我都只点一个加州卷，因为里面的蟹肉是熟的。而饭团呢，所有的馅料都是全熟的，简直太开心！”

　　Katherine Spiers是“吃好点”的美食评论家，有一个关于各种餐厅评论的网页。

　　“洛杉矶是美国第一个开始接受寿司的城市，可以追溯到1966年寿司开始在美国流行，亚洲餐馆老板们知道洛杉矶可以让他们推销产品，他们想要以洛杉矶为根据地将亚洲食品发扬光大。其中一个原因是洛杉矶的亚裔占很大比例，此外洛杉矶人们也热衷于尝试新食物。”

　　And rice balls are winning fans from people who are not typically fond of raw sushi. Like KoKo Allen from Los Angeles. "I like the rice balls because I'm not a huge fan of sushi and raw fish. Normally when I go to a sushi restaurant I order a California roll which the crab is cooked inside of it, as opposed to rice balls - everything that is inside the rice ball is fully cooked."

　　Katherine Spiers is a food writer for Serious Eats, a website about restaurants.

　　"Los Angeles was the first city in the United States to really embrace sushi and that was way back in 1966 so it was decades before it became popular anywhere else in America and ever since then, Asian restaurant owners have seen Los Angeles as a place where they can export their products. First they want to send it to Los Angeles and then the rest of the United States. That's partly because Los Angeles has a really large Asian population. It's also because California is known as a place where people want to try new food."